On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:33 -0700, John Wendel wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:39 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote: > >> I've been itching to try the latest eclipse, > > <snippage> > >> So there it is, the shiny yes/no prompt just sitting there like the > >> history eraser button tempting me to answer yes. But I'm terrified. Has > >> anybody tried this? Did it work? > > > > Ha! The old "Space Madness" syndrome from "Ren & Stimpy" Pushing the > > "Shiny Red Button" wiped out the universe and reality itself for > > Stimpy. > > > > Some lesson to learn for some kid viewing it, huh? <grins> > > > > So, there ya go. To push or not to push, that is certainly the question! > > My guts clinch up at the pondering of it. Ric > > > > Well, I tried to install the latest eclipse from the development repo. > Yum failed to resolve all the dependencies, failed with some library > related to mplayer. It wanted to install new versions of gnome, kde, > open office, gcc, glibc, anaconda and lots of other stuff, totally > unrelated to eclipse. > > I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A FSCKED UP DEPENDENCY MESS! Oh well, it's > development. > > I would have ended up with half of an FC8 system. I might have been > interesting, but probably not too stable. > > I really wanted to push the Shiny Red Button, but it wouldn't let me. Ah, so the Shiny Red Button (the SRB) has an Anti-Peril feature? That is a good thing to know! Reality, whatever-in-the-heck-that-is, has been spared from certain destruction. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
